GOP Rep. Jeff Duncan: Climate Change Isn’t A Threat, Focus On Crimes Against Christians Instead

Yesterday, a House Homeland Security subcommittee hearing was held by House Republicans to address climate change, and how they thought the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was spending too much time on it. The Subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency (that should be an oxymoron) which has a Republican majority that includes South Carolina Rep. Jeff Duncan, had three senior officials from the Department of Homeland Security called to their hearing, where they were asked to explain why they were looking at climate change as a national security risk.

Thomas Smith, Acting Assistant Secretary for DHS’s Office of Policy – Strategy, Plans, Analysis and Risk (SPAR) explained to the Subcommittee that climate change and natural disasters were indeed threats to national security.

“In conclusion, the best way to posture the Department to effectively address emerging threats and accomplish the Department’s five enduring missions is to ensure that tough policy, strategy, and resource decisions are informed by a consideration of the strategic environment, with a clear sense of the associated risk and resource implications. To disregard natural disasters, pandemics, and climate change would be ignoring how these factors may indirectly act as “threat multipliers”; and neglect our shared responsibility to strategically manage risk and build a more prepared, resilient Nation. It is through the thorough and candid assessment of these risks that that we will strengthen the security and resilience of the United States.” (Source)

Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC), like many other Republicans in Congress, doesn’t think that climate change is influenced by man. It’s also no surprise that the number one contributor to his campaign committee is the oil and gas industry, which Jeff Duncan has consistently provided support for with his votes since he became a member of Congress during the Tea Party surge back in 2010.

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